Grassroots Out
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| Formation | 23 January 2016 |
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| Founders | Peter Bone MP, Kate Hoey MP, Tom Pursglove MP |
| Purpose | United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union |
| Headquarters | Kettering, Northamptonshire |
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Region served
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United Kingdom |
| Website | grassrootsout |
Grassroots Out (GO) was an organisation that campaigned in favour of EU withdrawal in the 2016 referendum on EU membership in the United Kingdom.
The organisation was formed in January 2016 as a result of infighting between Vote Leave and Leave.EU, and officially launched on 23 January 2016 in Kettering. Despite its name, it was started by politicians from a mixture of political parties including Peter Bone, Tom Pursglove, Liam Fox of the Conservatives, Kate Hoey of Labour, Nigel Farage of UKIP and Sammy Wilson of the DUP. The left-wing Respect Party later joined Grassroots Out.
GO came into being following a number of controversies within Vote Leave, the original cross-party movement campaigning for Brexit, and infighting between Vote Leave and Leave.EU. The current affairs magazine Private Eye said:
Although [Grassroots Out] is little more than another Ukip front – with Farage at its launch and Ukip moneybags Arron Banks providing cash – Labour MP Kate Hoey has signed up, so disillusioned are she and other Labour Euroscptics with Kurtz [Dominic Cummings, leader of Vote Leave].
On 13 February 2016, Respect Party leader George Galloway interviewed UKIP leader Farage on Sputnik, the show he presents for the Russian RT television network; Galloway and Farage agreed on everything that was discussed and Galloway expressed his commitment to joining GO.
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